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The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…
The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in the former part of homilies. Set out by the authority of the Queens Majesty: and to be read in every parish church agreeably.The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in the former part of homilees. Set out by the aucthoritie of the Queenes Maiestie: and to be read in euery parishe church agreeably.
Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richard Jugge, and John Cawood, printers to the Queens Majesty, 1571Imprinted at London : In Poules Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge, and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Queenes Maiestie, 1571
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Yet when he seeth the temple and ⟨p. 21⟩holy house of his heavenly father misordered, polluted, and profaned, useth great severity and sharpness, overturneth the tables of the exchangers, subverteth the seats of them that sold doves, maketh a whip of cords, and scourgeth out those wicked abusers and profaners of the temple of God, saying, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. And in the. ii. of John, Do not ye make 1the house of my father, the house of merchandise. For as it is the house of GOD, when Gods service is duly done in it: So when we wickedly abuse it with wicked talk or covetous bargaining, we make it a den of thieves, or an house of merchandise. Yea, and such reverence would Christ should be therein, that he would not 2suffer any vessel to be carried through the temple. And where as our saviour Christ (as is before mentioned out of S. Luke) could be found no where (when he was sought) but only in the temple amongst the doctors, and now again exerciseth his authority and jurisdiction, not in castles and princely palaces amongst soldiers, but in the temple: Ye may hereby understand in what place his spiritual kingdom (which he denieth to be of this world) is sonest to be found, and best to be known of all places in this world. And according to this example of our saviour Christ in the primitive Church, which was most holy & godly, and in the which due discipline with severity was used against the wicked, open offenders were not suffered once to enter into the house of the Lord, nor admitted ⟨p. 22⟩to common prayer, and the use of the holy Sacraments with other true Christians, until they had done open penance before the whole Church. And this was practised, not only upon mean persons, but also upon the rich, noble, and mighty persons, yea, upon Theodosius that puissant and mighty Emperor, whom for committing a grievous and wilful murder, S. Ambrose Bishop of Milan reproved sharply, and did also excommunicate the said Emperor, and brought him to open penance. And they that were so justly exempted and banished (as it 3were) from the house of the Lord, were taken (as they be in deed) for men divided and separated from Christs Church, and in most dangerous estate, yea as S.